Re: [PATCHSET v5 0/12] Add support for async buffered reads

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Jun 01 2020 - 10:35:09 EST


On 6/1/20 8:14 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 6/1/20 8:13 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:04 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 6/1/20 7:35 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>>>> Hi Jens,
>>>>
>>>> with Linux v5.7 final I switched to linux-block.git/for-next and reverted...
>>>>
>>>> "block: read-ahead submission should imply no-wait as well"
>>>>
>>>> ...and see no boot-slowdowns.
>>>
>>> Can you try with these patches applied instead? Or pull my async-readahead
>>> branch from the same location.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I can do that.
>> I pulled from linux-block.git#async-readahead and will report later.
>>
>> Any specific testing desired by you?
>
> Just do your boot timing test and see if it works, thanks.

Actually, can you just re-test with the current async-buffered.6 branch?
I think the major surgery should wait for 5.9, we can do this a bit
easier without having to touch everything around us.

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Jens Axboe